Western cyclone., 1887-10-14
KANSAS.
Condensed Reports of the Latest News
from All Parts of the State,

Kansas has but four unorganized /.
counties.
Oakley, two years old, has $500 |
inhabitants.
Peaches are but 65 and IS cents !
pei buShel at Hiawatha.
In some portions of the State the
apple crop is enormous.
-Labette county raised S,946 acres
of castor beans this year
A valuable vein of gypsum has
been found near Manhattan.
Five more men have been arrested
for cattle stealing at Emporia.
The establishment of cotton
mill is being talked of at Topeka.
The signs of the times in Kansas
would indicate that the proper thing
for farmers to do next year is to raise
CAIN.
--Eldorado has an organized stock
company with capital of 100000,
that expect to commence packing pork
for our western counties by November
first.
Only a few years ago there were
scarcely enough Catholics in Nemaha
county to form small sized organiZa-
ton. Now there are enough of them
to warrant the erection at Seneca of a
$4,000 cathedral, which has just been
done.
The papers of Kansas are talking
up home manufactures grandly. Fac
tories are being started all over the
State. There is no good reason why
Kansas should not become as famous
for her manufacturing enterprises as
for her great agricultural products.
The Kansas Silk Station at Pea
body sent some Kansas grown silk TO
Beldings Brothers, n. Y, from which
the latter made twenty-six yards of
good black silk. 1t was sent back to
the State Fair, and at the close of the
fair was presented to Mrs Martin, the
wife of the Governor.
There occurs between Salina and
Abilene what, we dare say, does not
occur elsewhere in the United States,
or likely in the world. 1t is three rail-
roads running parallel with each other
for the distance of twenty-five miles.
| The roads indicated are the Union Pa
cifc, the Sante Fe and the Rock Is
! land.
The official department badge of
the Kansas g. A. r. is out and has
been received by some of the posts.
The design is grassbopper and a sun
/ flower connected with a ribbon bear
ing the word kansas" in gold letters
1t was designed by Major w. b.
! ShOckley, treasurer of the Soldiers
Home at Leavenworhh, and was unan-
imously adopted by the council of ad-
miniStratiOn.
Jack True, the alleged murderer
of William Price. fishing companion,
in July last. was found guilty of man
slaughter in Wichita, the penalty OF
which is three to five years in the
penitentiary The verdict caused con-
siderable unfavorable comment, fol
lowing upon the sentencing of Ste
wart, a drug clerk, to the Jail for
seventeen years and four months for
selling 208 glasses of beer.
The flag which the ladies of June
ton City presented Co. b.. Second
Kansas Infantry. May 25th, 1861, and
which foated over Wilson Creek and
Shelbina at the time of those memora
BILE battles, was carried by the June
ton delegation to the st Louis en-
campment Miss Josephine Morgan
now widow of VIM. ) Blakeslev. fol
many years Junction City's postmas
ter, made the presentation on that oc-
cassion twenty-six years ago.
The Santa Fe company has taken
charge of that portion of the southern
Kansas road between Wellington and
Iowa. and will operate it. All South
ern Kansas passengers VIII be trans
ferred at Wellington, where elaborate
Improvements are in progress. \ biz
union depot. ten-stlll round house
the largest turn table on the line anC
immense coal chutes are being erected
, Double tracks are also being bull
through the city by both roads.
) Martin Palmesser, of Atchison
was fatally injured by colored mar
name George Johnson. They were a
work on new sewer, and the negTI
thew a shoyelful Of earth into the ditto
on Palmesser's head. The latter cam
and slapped Johnson in the face. y
he was about 10 descend again tn
negro struck him on the head with
heavy shovel. knocking him into tn
ditch. where his head struck agains
some timbers, producing conclusion
the brain. Johnson fed but was cap
tured few hours later.
Z Col. ID. Il. Anthony has dispose
of his newspaper plant. the Leaven
worth Times. 10 a syndicate OF Me-
England people represented by W. !
Rice Of Kansas City. The managin
: editor in the future will be II. 4
smith of the Boston youTndt and